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Ranking-Manager 6.0
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November 14th, 2007 - 6.0.23.2007 Program Update
| • FIX: | A minor issue with cookie storage has been fixed. Most recently, this problem exhibited its self when ranking on MSN with hundreds of keywords. The cookie size continued to grow until MSN (and possibly other engines) rejected the cookie and stopped delivering results. After installing this update, go to the Tools menu in the program and select Delete Cookies to remove the offending cookies. | November 14th, 2007 - 6.0.22.2007 Program Update
| • UPDATE: | Made some changes to the way MSN is handled. | | • UPDATE: | The install now makes the installation of the Microsoft Runtime optional for those that already have it installed. (It takes a long time to install and makes your system appear to be hung.) | November 4th, 2007 - 6.0.18.2007 Program Update
| • FIX: | On Windows Vista, the cookies folder was not in an allowed location and caused a warning on some systems. This has been fixed. | | • UPDATE: | You can now enter sub domains in the Enter Domains task. A side affect of this, you will now need to specifically enter any sub domains for a web site to report on those as well. (www is always excluded) | | • UPDATE: | Keywords that had a pound sign (#) embedded in them would not rank correctly. This has been fixed. | September 23rd, 2007 - 6.0.17.2007 Program Update
| • ADD: | New Optimization option on the Tools menu to compress project files that have deleted rankings | | • ADD: | New option to export projects to SQL files for import into MySQL or used as a backup. | June 13th, 2007 - 6.0.16.2007 Program Update
| • FIX: | The module that supports local project files was shipped in the last release as a DEBUG module. This can cause a crash on your system when running large projects. This update replaces the module with the correct RELEASE version. | June 12th, 2007 - 6.0.15.2007 Program Update
| • ADD: | New "Title HREF" field for most reports. If your URLs are getting truncated in the search engine listings, you can also try using this field instead on your reports. Not all engines in Ranking-Manager support this field yet, but Yahoo! US does. | June 11th, 2007 - 6.0.14.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • FIX: | Ask US and Ask UK are now working again. | May 3rd, 2007 - 6.0.12.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | You can now paste in comma separated lists of keywords and domains into the respective tasks. | | • ADD: | Six new Portuguese search engines were added. | | • ADD: | Added "Google.us". If you are in a foreign country trying to query google.com, but keep getting redirected to your country specific engine, use this engine instead. Google will not redirect your connection when using this engine and you will get google.com results. | | • UPDATE: | The list of Top Level Domains (TLDs) has been updated with 12 new TLDs. You can now enter domains with these extensions in the Domans task. (ax, au, eu, me, su, sv, tl, cat, jobs, mobi, tel, and travel) | | • UPDATE: | The list of engine icons has been updated, you will need to install the 6.0.12.2007 release to get this updated list. | April 17th, 2007 - 6.0.11.2007 Program Update
| • UPDATE: | Added new fields to all of the reports, expanding on the reporting possibilities. The fields added are the Search Engine's short name (base name), country code, and locale. | | • UPDATE: | The Search Engine Summary reports now correctly display the country names in all cases. To update these reports in your project, open your project as normal, go to the Run Reports step and delete these reports from the project. Then close and reopen your project. The reports will now reflect the new changes. | April 11th, 2007 - 6.0.10.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | A Print button has been added to the Run Reports task that works in conjunction with the Print button on the main toolbar. | | • ADD: | A new System Diagnostics function has been added to help users having difficulty with installed Security and Firewall software. This new function is available from both the Welcome screen and the Tools menu. | | • ADD: | A new Keyword Data Verification dialog has been added to the Query Engines step. After Querying a search engine, you can now double-click the keword to see all the underlining data that was downloaded from the search engine. | | • ADD: | You can now Rename an existing query from the Query Engines step allowing you to reorganize your data for reporting purposes. | March 19th, 2007 - 6.0.9.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | Over 100 new search engines were added to the program. Too many to list here. You program will receive the update automatically. | | • UPDATE: | When attempting to download an engine pack, the program will now tell you if it's being blocked by a Firewall software. | | • UPDATE: | When performing a Query Engines, a new "Red Flag" will display next to each result if the query program "frank.exe" is being blocked by a Firewall software. | | • UPDATE: | The query program "Frank" has been updated to handle more unique variants of search engines allowing the addition of more search engines. | March 14th, 2007 - 6.0.8.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | Lycos IT, Alice IT, Ask IT, Kataweb IT, Supereva IT, Live IT, Excite IT, Iltrovatore IT, and Tiscali IT. To utilize all the new IT engines, you need to upgrade to 6.0.8 of Ranking-Manager | March 11th, 2007 - 6.0.7.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | 2 new Quick Reports in the Domain Names and Keywords tasks; one to show orphaned items and another to item by group. | | • ADD: | New text search capability on the Reports. You can now search for text on reports. | | • ADD: | More new search engines added, with more to come. | | • FIX: | The Print toolbar button was enabled at times when it shouldn't be. | | • UPDATE: | In the Enter Domains, Enter Keywords, and Select Engines task, creating a group from a selection does not change the selected group. | February 23rd, 2007 - 6.0.5.2007 Program/Engine Update
| • FIX: | In some cases it was possible for Ranking-Manager to not get an engine update when one was available. This has been corrected and also updates frank.exe to handle this change. | | • UPDATE: | Lycos US was not getting the total results or the individual results. | | • UPDATE: | Now when you click the Check for Update command from the Help menu, you get a message box stating your version is current if it is current. | | • UPDATE: | The About box now shows you where all the relevant directories are that Ranking-Manager is using. | | • UPDATE: | Cosmetic change to the Task title bar (removed some extra spaces in the title). | February 23rd, 2007 - 6.0.4.2007 Engine Update
| • UPDATE: | Yahoo! US was only reporting on the first 9 results per page. You will need to click Update Now from the Select Engines task to get this update. | February 18th, 2007 - 6.0.4.2007 Program Update
| • ADD: | Column headings on reports can now have html injected into them by prepending the "<html>" tag to the front of the heading. This causes the reporting engine to leave any html code alone. | | • ADD: | A new report has been added to the Position Change group -- By Engine/Keyword Comparison. This report compares the current ranking against the last ranking for each engine/keyword combination in your project showing position movement. | | • ADD: | New import feature in the Emphasize dialog box. This allows you to import the Emphasis for a column on the report from another column on another report. Basically saves you a lot of typing if you're creating a report that uses the same emphasis from another report. | | • UPDATE: | The Case button on the Custom Report dialog is one place where you can inject your own SQL into a report. This function has been improved to watch for user entered SQL and format the case statement in the report correctly. | | • UPDATE: | All of the existing Position Change reports have been updated to a new look to help make them easier to analyze. You will need to remove the existing ones from your project, close your project, then reopen it to get the new reports. | | • UPDATE: | Minor improvements to the way the html is generated in reports when elements like headers, legends, notes, and footers are not displayed. Basically removed unnecessary breaks, spaces, and horizontal rules. | February 15th, 2007 - 6.0.3.2007 Program Update
| • ADD: | When importing Custom Reports that are corrupted or duplicates of existing reports in the project the program now displays more information about the report you are trying to import to help you fix the problem. | | • UPDATE: | Reset Defaults under Custom Reports was still not working under certain situations. This is corrected. | February 11th, 2007 - 6.0.2.2007 Ranking-Manager 6.0 Upgrade
| • UPDATE: | This is a FREE upgrade for all existing Website-Manager 1.x users. You will need your existing authorization code to unlock this software. | November 16th, 2006 - 1.1.12.722 Engine Update
| • FIX: | A9 US, Exalead US and FR, Sogou CN, Jubii DK, ilse NL and BE, MSN News US | | • UPDATE: | All search engines that display Total Natural Results on the first page are now capturing that value for reporting. | November 16th, 2006 - 1.1.12.722 Engine Update
| • FIX: | Lycos US and Lycos FR were not receiving results and the Total Results number was missing. This has now been fixed. | November 15th, 2006 - 1.1.12.722 Engine Update
| • FIX: | All Google search engines broke today and have now been fixed. Other changes include, Google CA was only getting the first page and both Google DK engines were experiencing random missing results. All issues have been fixed. | October 5th, 2006 - 1.1.12.722 Engine Update
| • FIX: | All country versions of Google broke this morning and have now been fixed. Make sure you're using the latest version and go to Tools|Force Search Engines to Update from the main menu to ensure you get this update today. Otherwise, your program will automatically pick up this update tomorrow. | October 3rd, 2006 - 1.1.12.722 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | New Tools menu with commands for deleting search engine cookies, temporary files, and forcing the update of search engine definition files. | | • ADD: | New "Featured" listing type for search engines that are now displaying grouped results on the first page with links to more results. (e.g., AOL News) | | • UPDATE: | Improved the engine parser (frank.exe) to handle more types of search engine result pages. | | • UPDATE: | In the Search Engines task, the list of engines is now initially sorted ascending. | | • UPDATE: | All search engine icons have been brought current. | | • UPDATE: | Improved the handling of the scheduling file with more error checking and self correction when possible. | September 9th, 2006 - 1.1.10.678 Program/Engine Update
| • FIX: | This release combines many small bug fix iterations and brings current all included search engines. | | • UPDATE: | The use of Microsoft Installer has been removed, which eliminates the need for installing .net 2.0 on your computer. | August 21st, 2006 - 1.1.9.447 Engine Update
| • FIX: | MSN AU, MSN CA, MSN CN, MSN FR, Yahoo! FR, MSN IT, ilse NL, MSN NL, MSN NZ, MSN UK, MSN US. | | • FIX: | Total number of results for Yahoo! AU, Yahoo! CA, Yahoo! CA (pages from Canada), AltaVista DE, Yahoo! DA, Yahoo! DA (pa dansk), AltaVista IT, Yahoo! IT, Yahoo! NL, Yahoo! RU, Yahoo! SG. | June 2nd, 2006 - 1.1.9.447 Engine Update
| • ADD: | Google SG, MSN SG, and Yahoo! SG | | • FIX: | Vinden NL, Jubii DK (gets only first page), and Startsiden NO (gets only first page) | | • UPDATE: | If you are having any trouble with Website-Manager or Frank terminating unexpectedly, please uninstall and reinstall the application. This will fix any problems you are having. | May 22nd, 2006 - 1.1.9.447 Engine Update
| • FIX: | Lycos US, MSN US, Yahoo US, MSN CS, MSN CN, Yahoo CN, Jubii DK, Free FR, Italia IT, Goo JP, and ilse NL | May 16th, 2006 - 1.1.9.447 Program Update
| • FIX: | Reports in 1.1.8 were not displaying data from any rankings generated with 1.1.8. | May 11th, 2006 - 1.1.8.432 Program/Engine Update
| • FIX: | Custom reports on new projects were missing default CSV export settings, these have been put back. | | • FIX: | Random crashes during rankings when the SERPs had percent sign (%) characters embedded in the page. | May 1st, 2006 - 1.1.7.427 Installer Update/Engine Update
| • ADD: | Abacho TR, AltaVista DK, Eniro DK, Exalead US, Google DK, Google TR, ixquick NL, Jubii DK, MSN DK, MSN TR, Track NL, Vinden NL, Vindex NL, Yahoo! DK | | • FIX: | In some cases MSN was returning multiple cookies that could cause a project to crash during a ranking. | | • UPDATE: | The Installer is now using a Microsoft MSI install file. The program has been update to use the latest Microsoft libraries. | April 9th, 2006 - 1.1.6.333 Program/Engine Update
| • ADD: | Exalead FR, Google CN, Yahoo CN, MSN CN, Cha Iask CN, Sogou CN, Startsiden NO | | • ADD: | Hourglass cursor for column sorting on very large projects | | • FIX: | Project using MySQL will now work correctly with both Check Positions and Reporting using Cross-tab reports | | • FIX: | Double-clicking a project file from Windows Explorer now correctly launches Website-Manager with the project opened | | • FIX: | Minor improvements to the way Inactive search engines are handled while ranking a project | | • UPDATE: | Redo Incomplete from Check Positions has been changed to Redo with two options: "Keywords Not Finished" and "Keywords with Zero Results" | | • UPDATE: | The SQLite database driver for project files has been updated. | April 5th, 2006 - 1.1.5.326 Program Update
| • ADD: | In Check Positions there is a new button "Redo Incomplete" that allows you to start a ranking where it left off. Basically, you can now click the Abort button to stop the ranking, and the click Redo Incomplete to restart it. | | • UPDATE: | The estimiated time left in the Check Positions display has been modified to be more accurate and informative. | April 4th, 2006 - 1.1.4.272 Installer Update
| • UPDATE: | Replaced the project file driver for a newer version. Should help with problems on extremely large projects (I.e., over 1,500 keywords) | March 31st, 2006 - 1.1.4.272 Engine Update
March 30th, 2006 - 1.1.4.272 Engine Update
| • FIX: | Yahoo DE, Yahoo CA, Yahoo CA (pages in Canada), Yahoo US | March 29th, 2006 - 1.1.4.272 Minor Update
| • ADD: | More improvements to troubleshooting potential problems if they arrise. | | • FIX: | Cross-tab reports with aggregated data fields were producing incorrect results. | | • FIX: | The default project paths for new and opened projects were getting corrupted. | | • FIX: | None of the 40+ custom reports were showing in Trial mode. | | • UPDATE: | Improved handing of the program update messages. You can now install an update when prompted. | | • UPDATE: | Inactivated Teoma and fixed a display issue with inactive search engines. (Teoma no longer exists.) | | • UPDATE: | Help is completed. | February 25th, 2006 - 1.1.3.244 Quick Fix
| • FIX: | Introduced a problem in registering for the 14-day trial in the last release. | | • UPDATE: | The online help and User's Guide has more completed topics. | February 24th, 2006 - 1.1.2.242 Minor Update
| • ADD: | New "Highlight" method for Emphasis on the reports. This can be used to highlight keywords in your report like the search engines do in the listings. | | • FIX: | Problem with handling cookies on some search engines. Cookie were accepted, but not returned in some cases which could case query results to vary. | | • FIX: | MSN Japan | | • UPDATE: | When querying search engines, the user's locale was passed to the search engine by default. Now the prefered locale for the search engine is used as the default. This can still be overridden by the user. | | • UPDATE: | Browser emulations is even more accurate than before. Now the HTTP headers are returned to the search engines in the exact order they are returned from the emulated Web browser. | | • UPDATE: | The user_agent.txt file used to add more browsers to emulate has been replace with ua.xml. This gives more control on how a browser is emulated. | February 16th, 2006 - 1.1.1.239 Minor Update
| • ADD: | When generating reports, a new Progress window displays giving you the chance to terminate a report in progress if it's taking too long. | | • ADD: | A new Quick Start Guide pane displays below the Navigation pane to get users up and running quickly. | | • FIX: | Cross-tab reports with an initial hidden column were generating incorrect CSV files. | | • FIX: | Cross-tab reports that used HTML code in the column headers were including this HTML code in CSV exports. HTML code is now stripped before export. | | • FIX: | Cross-tab column width problem when the initial column was hidden. | | • UPDATE: | The Emphasis dialog box for emphasizing specific column data values has been enhanced to show all the prefix commands available when emphasizing column values. Plus, new emphasis methods have been added to improve the ability of formatting reports. | | • UPDATE: | Other minor updates to improve perfomance and usability. | February 8th, 2006 - 1.1.0.222 Version Upgrade (FREE)
| • ADD: | New program Preference on the General tab to automatically empty the cache folder on program exit. | | • ADD: | When importing meta keyword or titles from web pages, the url address defaults to the project's main domain. | | • ADD: | New program Preference on the Ranking tab to adjust the number of times Check Positions will retry a failed search before giving up. | | • ADD: | Cross-tab reports have been added to the system giving you more flexibility with reporting options. | | • ADD: | More search engines were added, including Canadian search engines. | | • ADD: | New scheduling feature: You can now run external programs from the scheduling file for even more automation power. | | • FIX: | Sorting problem on reports that used aggregate fields, like Indexed Pages and others. | | • UPDATE: | Plus many enhancements to improve the performance of the program. | February 1st, 2006 - 1.0.5.3234 Engine Update
| • ADD: | Added Sponsored Top to Google US. | | • FIX: | MSN US Sponsored Right wasn't parsing if no bottom ads were present. | | • FIX: | AOL AU, All The Web FR, and Overture UK (Yahoo JP is still broke, some results are gathered with missing urls) | January 20th, 2006 - 1.0.5.3234 Minor Update
| • ADD: | Three (3) more Japanese search engines; Goolge JP, MSN JP, and Yahoo! JP. | | • ADD: | You can now import web page titles in the Keywords task. This can help make finding hijacked pages in Google and MSN much easier than before. | | • ADD: | Eight (8) more New Zealand search engines. | | • FIX: | Rebuilt the SQLite project file driver to eliminate false asserts while the application is running a large project. | January 14th, 2006 - 1.0.4.3227 Minor Update
| • ADD: | When running scheduled projects with a logging file, the log file will now contain more entries about where it is in the process for troubleshooting help. | | • ADD: | Five (5) more French search engines were added for this release. | | • FIX: | Fixed a problem where the Domain Names task would not accept sub'd TLDs, like sms.in.th. There's a new configuration file in the program directory named tld-subs.txt that you can use to enter your own TLD subs. | | • FIX: | The Search Engine task now displays the correct domain name for each search engine. Before, only the root domain was showing. For example, fr.yahoo.com was displaying as yahoo.com. | | • FIX: | When emailing or saving reports from a scheduled file that was missing the standard_id tag, no output was generated. The program will now look up the standard_id value for you eliminating the need for that value in the scheduling file. | January 9th, 2006 - 1.0.3.3224 Minor Update
| • ADD: | This version of the Installer installs the missing MySQL library into the Windows System directory that allows you to create server-based projects using MySQL. | | • ADD: | Added 10 new search engines. | | • FIX: | Website-Manager was importing duplicate keywords from TopDog Pro project files. This would cause Website-Manager to ignore Ranking requests in the Check Positions task. | | • FIX: | Website-Manager now uses the locale specific Windows folder for "My Documents". | | • UPDATE: | Whenever asked for a folder path in a dialog box, Website-Manager now remembers your last folder and uses it. | | • UPDATE: | The installer application has been updated to now use French and Italian when installing in those countries. | | • UPDATE: | You can now use the CASE button under the Custom Reports Columns tab to run SQL functions on columns in the report. For instance, you can use it to format a date field to something other than the local format. | January 2nd, 2006 - 1.0.2.3220 Engine Update
| • FIX: | Excite UK, Fireball, Abacho UK | December 29th, 2005 - 1.0.2.3220 Minor Update
| • UPDATE: | The Standard edition of Website-Manager is now available. | December 26th, 2005 - 1.0.1.1720
| • NEW: | Website-Manager is now available! | |
